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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Mice and men (er, programmers).
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.195427.42237@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 90 01:54:27 GMT
Organization: Utah State University
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	My copy of the Microsoft Mouse book is brand new, and has all
programming information in several languages, including assembler. It also
has a diskette attached. I found this edition to be quite clear and useful,
but limited to Microsoft mice (i.e., really two buttons) and clones. I used
the assembler part roll my own mouse support material in v3.02 of MS-DOS
Kermit (added last week) and it worked the first time with my MS mouse and
with AT&T's Logitek mouse driver, and I'm told a trackball with compatible
driver. The book seems to neglect one item (or I missed it) which is resetting
the mouse driver can zap the activity of a running mouse program. It turns
out to be trival to avoid by capturing the mouse state in a buffer and
restoring it when done. No problems at all seeing which register does what.
	Joe D.